Re: DOSSETT: French or English, or both?
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In reply to:
Re: DOSSETT: French or English, or both?
7/25/01
?Submissions to the International
Genealogical Index (1992)/LDS reveal that the Dossett surname was in use in several counties in England in the 1500's:
London:John Dossett,1539, married Jone Hall
Berkshire: Eline Dossett, 1542, married John Young
Bedford:Robert Dossett,1543, born
Surrey: Jone Dossett,1551, born
Gloucester: Mergerat Dosset,1552, married Richard Symons
Shropshire:Dorothy Dossett, 1557, born to John Dossett
Buckingham: Roger Dosset,1563, born
Hertford: Phillip Dossat, 1587, married Jone Franklyn
and that the surname was in use in the following English counties as early as follows:
Derby: Catherine Dossett, 1811, married John Green
Devon:William Dossit, 1746, married Judith Bennit
Dorset: Elezebeth Dosett, 1657, married John Burtt
Hampshire: Elenor Dossett,1641, married Henry Fourd
Hereford: Elizabeth Dosset,1768,married John Thompson
Kent:John Dosset, 1642, married Elizabeth Bell
Lancashire:James Dossett, 1852, born to William and Ann Dossett
Oxford: Richard Dossett, 1641, married Joane Kirkham
Somerset:Dorothy Dosset, 1607, married Edward Palmer
Sussex: Benajmin Dossett, 1620, married Agnes Cybe
?One English author declared (or more likely guessed) that Dossett is "a corruption of Dorset.If not this, it must be
baptismal, and be a corruption of Dowsett, which seems the more rational interpretation . . ."CHARLES WAREING
BARDSLEY, A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH AND WELSH SURNAMES (London, 1901, republished, Baltimore:Genealogical
Publishing Co., Inc., 1980) at 249.